Pretty much, the US supreme court ruled in Price v. United States: "The United States, as [a] sovereign, 'is immune from suit save as it consents to be sued " in the labyrinthine mess that is the DMCA the US left itself a exemption for use of copyrighted materials in national defense, thus good luck to them on that suit.

The article is pretty information-free.What alleged copyright violations took place?Is the band claiming that the songs played at the Guantanamo Bay prison were unlawfully downloaded?Are they claiming there is an implied obligation that their musin not be played at an unwilling audience?

give me doughnuts:The article is pretty information-free.What alleged copyright violations took place?Is the band claiming that the songs played at the Guantanamo Bay prison were unlawfully downloaded?Are they claiming there is an implied obligation that their musin not be played at an unwilling audience?

Your Hind Brain:give me doughnuts: The article is pretty information-free.What alleged copyright violations took place?Is the band claiming that the songs played at the Guantanamo Bay prison were unlawfully downloaded?Are they claiming there is an implied obligation that their musin not be played at an unwilling audience?

What harm did Skinny Puppy suffer that needs to be redressed?LinkyEven more detail from link within.

legion_of_doo:Your Hind Brain: give me doughnuts: The article is pretty information-free.What alleged copyright violations took place?Is the band claiming that the songs played at the Guantanamo Bay prison were unlawfully downloaded?Are they claiming there is an implied obligation that their musin not be played at an unwilling audience?

What harm did Skinny Puppy suffer that needs to be redressed?LinkyEven more detail from link within.

So Gitmo is open to the public, free for others to gather at?

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Oh yeah, you're right.

No additional license is required to privately view a movie or other copyrighted work with a few friends and family or in certain narrowly defined face-to-face teaching activities.

That's ironic in so many ways. I'm not sure I could disentangle the ironies in a book.

The biggest irony may be that copyright is being used against torturers, not ten year olds who download a song they'll love for a couple of weeks but wouldn't and couldn't buy in a thousand years. The US Government is certainly guilty of aiding and abetting copyright trolls and squatters, while torture violates the letter and the spirit of the Constitution, the laws, and the stated principles of every US government.

Read the CIA website for children and they will tell you that they never do assassinations, overthrow elected governments, or torture or other international and domestic crimes. Perhaps there are dim children who would believe this if they ever visited the CIA website.

Well, I'm off to listen to some electro-industrial. Maybe Skinny Puppy has something worth 99 cents.

brantgoose:That's ironic in so many ways. I'm not sure I could disentangle the ironies in a book.

The biggest irony may be that copyright is being used against torturers, not ten year olds who download a song they'll love for a couple of weeks but wouldn't and couldn't buy in a thousand years. The US Government is certainly guilty of aiding and abetting copyright trolls and squatters, while torture violates the letter and the spirit of the Constitution, the laws, and the stated principles of every US government.

Read the CIA website for children and they will tell you that they never do assassinations, overthrow elected governments, or torture or other international and domestic crimes. Perhaps there are dim children who would believe this if they ever visited the CIA website.

Well, I'm off to listen to some electro-industrial. Maybe Skinny Puppy has something worth 99 cents.

pxlboy:brantgoose: That's ironic in so many ways. I'm not sure I could disentangle the ironies in a book.

The biggest irony may be that copyright is being used against torturers, not ten year olds who download a song they'll love for a couple of weeks but wouldn't and couldn't buy in a thousand years. The US Government is certainly guilty of aiding and abetting copyright trolls and squatters, while torture violates the letter and the spirit of the Constitution, the laws, and the stated principles of every US government.

Read the CIA website for children and they will tell you that they never do assassinations, overthrow elected governments, or torture or other international and domestic crimes. Perhaps there are dim children who would believe this if they ever visited the CIA website.

Well, I'm off to listen to some electro-industrial. Maybe Skinny Puppy has something worth 99 cents.

I am a big fan of music, but Skinny Puppy is terrible. I have a bad association with it though. An ex roommate who decided it was more important to drop acid and listen to that shiat than pay rent was a big fan. He was also an asshole. kinda taints the whole mess.